NEWS: Numento chew on the grapes of wrath?

Helsinki Finland based Progressive Melodic Death Metal act Numento have warned of an upcoming EP with new single “Wrath”, a track which explores the dark side of human nature. Inspired by people forming abusive “relationships” with AI chatbots, the lyrics take the abuser’s perspective to question empathy, control, and violence in the digital age with vocalist Katri Hiovain-Asikainen and guitarist Atte Asikainen inking the narrative.

Guitarist Aleksi Vehmassalo comments: “We started writing the song with the idea of making Numento’s heaviest song to date, one that would showcase our death metal influences. That’s what the song turned out to be, but we also added a few clean vocal phrases, albeit doubled with growls. Still, the song is our most aggressive song to date.”

Guitarist Atte Asikainen adds: “We continued the production together with German producer Chris Herrle to ensure that the world-class quality and impact familiar from our third album would also be present in the new music. However, this time we used less synths and focused more on the core sound of the band.”